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...There is a misperception that the Rhodes is only open to political careers," Lui said. However, she said, selection committees for both the Rhodes and the Marshall award scholarships to students from all academic disciplines...
Angela's Ashes, McCourt's first book, is a bestseller and garnered the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. The book has been translated into 25 languages, and 5 million hardcover copies are in print...
...Holy Cross are teams of the caliber the Red Raiders (3-1, 1-1 Patriot). It is led by senior quarterback Ryan Vena, who has completed 53-of-98 passes for 758 yards and 6 touchdowns this season. His numbers make Vena a candidate for the Walter Peyton award, the Heisman award for Division 1-AA football...
Inventor Hyuk-ho Kwon traveled from Seoul, Korea to accept his award, bringing custom-made suits for the four genuine Nobel laureates at the ceremony...
Little Oskar the Drummer has finally conquered the world. His creator, German author G?nter Grass, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature Thursday, with his "Tin Drum," published in 1959, cited as "one of the enduring literary works of the 20th century." "It?s an excellent award, 30 years overdue, but better late than never," says TIME literary critic Paul Gray. "?The Tin Drum? was a pioneering attempt at new fictional forms, a kind of postmodern attempt at super-realism to deal with the bizarre and ugly rise of Nazism. It was an attempt to explore history through a kind...